Big Spaceship began in 2000 with the belief that culture and behavior, above and beyond technology and platforms, are the keys to connecting brands with people. We are continually evolving that belief, bringing together stories, systems, and communities to help businesses across industries thrive on a global scale.
We pride ourselves on fostering constant creativity and collaboration, internally and externally, throughout the entire working process. This commitment to partnership has been a key part of the success we share with our clients. We’re an eclectic mix of designers, technologists, strategists, producers, and analysts, trying to achieve something new and powerful together.
Big Spaceship is looking for a Freelance Senior Technologist, The Senior Technologist will work with a client and support teams to provide our clients with high-quality technology services. They will work with the team on a website project in conjunction with UX/UI Design, to implement and deploy the solution. In addition, they will maintain and enhance existing websites while adhering to best practices. The ideal candidate will have a passion for researching and learning the latest digital technologies.
Roles + Responsibilities
- Working with Product, UX, Design to review and vet design work before it hits the technology team
- Conducting front-end development to build out responsive templates/components
- Working closely with CMS devs to integrate FE code for templates/components with CMS back-end so components are functioning as designed
- Working close with analytics team members to ensure analytics tags are implemented as intended
- Updating custom UI frameworks
- Updating component StoryBook library
- Attending team meetings, etc.
- Members of the technical team, will also be required to work closely with the Client's technical team members, including but not limited to, day-to-day developers, QA team members, tech leads, analytics leads, CMS leads, DevOps team members.
- With the day-to-day working teams, developer(s) will work closely with BSS project managers, scrum masters, product managers, and UX/design team members.
Skills + Experience
- Expertise in HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, responsive design principles
- Expert knowledge of cross-browser compatibility and ability to debug issues
- Expert Angular 2+ developer, utilizing Typescript and Angular CLI
- Experience creating custom, reusable modules and components
- Experience unit testing with JavaScript frameworks
- Experience working in a Continuous Integration and Delivery environment
- Experience with automated testing and validating code
- Knowledge of web security standards and how to apply them
- Expertise utilizing RESTful web services
- Agile/Scrum experience
- Experience using Git/BitBucket source control
- Experience with Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo)